Joseph Badger
Born Charlestown, Mass., March 14, 1707/8.
Died Boston, May 11, 1765.

Faith Savage Waldo (Mrs. Cornelius Waldo), about 1750¹
Oil on canvas
50 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. (127.6 x 102 cm)
Gift of Hester Newton Wetherell Estate, 1922.214

Provenance
Cornelius (1684–1753) and Faith Savage Waldo (1683–1760); their son, Daniel Waldo (1724–1808), and his wife, Rebecca Salisbury Waldo (1731–1811); their daughter, Martha Waldo Lincoln (1761–1828) and her husband, Levi Lincoln (died 1820); Rejoice and Rebecca Lincoln Newton; John Walcott and Hester Newton Wetherell (died 1899). On deposit at the Worcester Art Museum by 1915. Bequest of Hester Newton Wetherell, a direct descendant of the sitter.²

References
Tuckerman 1867, 42.

Worcester Art Society 1891, n.p.

Lincoln 1902, I, opp. 74.

Earle 1910, xiv, 553.

Park 1914, 10–11.

L[    ]. 1915, [6], 8.

Park 1918a, 44–45.

Nutt 1919, I, 254.

Worcester 1922, 163.

Worcester Annual Report 1923, 15.

"Accessions," Worcester Bulletin 14, no. 1 (April 1923): 29.

Lee 1929, 203–4.

Worcester 1929, no. 330.

American Portraits 1939, II, 425, cat. no. 2245.

Dresser 1949, 110.

Sellers 1957, 425, 427.

Belknap 1959, 290, 325, and plate 18.

Warwick 1965, 287 and plate 69A.

Dresser 1971, 476.

Nylander 1972, 72.

Sadik 1976, 18 and 33 n 14.

Reutlinger 1975, 17.

Saunders and Miles 1987, 190.

Prosser 1995, 200.

Exhibitions
Loan Collections of Portraits Exhibited by the Worcester Art Society in the New Public Library Building, Worcester Art Society, March 31–April 1891, cat. no. 2.

Exhibition of American Eighteenth-Century Art Owned in and near Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, March 10–31, 1929, cat. no. 330.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. p. 17.

Notes
1. This painting also has been published as Mrs. Cornelius Waldo (Sellers 1957, 425); Mrs. Cornelius Waldo, (Faith Savage) (L[    ]., 1915, 6); Mrs. Cornelius Waldo (Faith Savage) (Worcester Art Society 1891, n.p.); Mrs. Cornelius Waldo (Faith Savage Waldo) (Worcester 1929, n.p.); Mrs. Faith (Savage) Waldo (Lincoln 1902, I, opp. 74); Mrs. Faith Savage Waldo (Earle 1903, 553); and Portrait of Mrs. Cornelius Waldo (Worcester 1922, 163).

2. The Waldo portraits’ presence in the Museum is documented in a letter from the assistant to the director to Lucy C. Driscoll, Art Institute of Chicago, March 20, 1915. The bequest is made known in Thomas Hovey Gage to Raymond Henniker-Heaton, December 1, 1922. Both letters in object file, Worcester Art Museum.